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Top down view at group of volunteers giving out simple meals to people in need at soup kitchen

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December 27, 2024
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Sentimentality vs. Compassion

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December 27, 2024
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I almost let 2024 slip away without a column about the 30th anniversary of The Homeless, an important book by scholar Christopher Jencks published in 1994. It included these sentences: "The homeless are indeed just like you and me in most respects. . . . But important as such similarities are, our differences are also important. To ignore them when we talk about the homeless is to substitute sentimentality for compassion." Read More ›

Homeless people sleeping in sleeping bag and cardboard in a street, concept of financial crisis, unemployment, lose job, vulnerable groups.

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December 20, 2024
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In the Life of a Homeless Man

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December 20, 2024
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With Christmas coming, I'm taking a timeout from my usual columnizing to send greetings to Tony, a homeless man in Colorado. He is 67 years old and may be sleeping in a North Face sleeping bag within an abandoned 144-square-foot wooden structure adjacent to a cemetery. (His summer bed has been a picnic bench about a third of a mile from a Safeway/Starbucks.) Read More ›

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December 18, 2024
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As Region Faces Shortage, Seattle Needs to Preserve its Existing Housing

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December 18, 2024
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According to a 2024 report on housing production from Up For Growth, the metro area encompassing Seattle, Tacoma, and Bellevue is facing a shortage of 71,060 homes. That amounts to 4.2% of the region’s total housing stock. While the production of new homes is vital to closing the gap between supply and demand, so is the preservation of existing housing, especially affordable housing. Read More ›

Poor homeless or refugee barefoot man sleeps on the street in the shadow of the building

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December 13, 2024
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Eighty Years of Homelessness Realism, 1914-1994

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December 13, 2024
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I've written in recent weeks about the non-sentimental view of homelessness that was common in the late nineteenth century. For much of the twentieth century, that realism carried over into academic work as well. Read More ›

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December 9, 2024
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Emergency Services Respond to Mental Health Emergency at Encampment Next to Seattle High School

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December 9, 2024
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jewish holiday Chanukah/Hanukkah family selebration. Jewish festival of lights. Children lighting candles on traditional menorah over glitter shiny background

^{Marvin Olasky
December 6, 2024
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The Rarity of Homelessness in Judaism

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December 6, 2024
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Christmas Eve this year is also the beginning of Hanukkah, an eight-day Jewish festival — and Jews are less likely to be homeless than non-Jewish Americans. That's not a new phenomenon. Between 1880 and 1914, about 1.5 million Jews (including my grandparents) emigrated from czarist Russia to North America. They lived apart from the mainly Christian charity networks, yet observers at the time noted very little Jewish homelessness. Why? Read More ›

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December 5, 2024
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Addiction Treatment Should Look Like This

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December 5, 2024
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In this episode of Restorations, Caitlyn McKenney is joined by the founder of Battlefield Addiction Art Dahlen. As a former addict, Art shares personal insights on addiction treatment, the policy environment in Seattle, and the power of language. Learn more about Battlefield Addiction at battlefieldaddiction.com Join the conversation on X @CaitlynMcKenney or @DiscoveryCWP. Episode Summary: In this episode of Restorations, host Caitlyn McKenney speaks with Art Read More ›

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December 1, 2024
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Social Media Influencer Nick Shirley Chased While Touring Seattle’s Chinatown

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December 1, 2024
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Unrecognizable woman hand helping man to stand up

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November 29, 2024
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Gurteen and Lowell: Nineteenth Century Views on True Charity

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November 29, 2024
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One Buffalo pastor, S. Humphreys Gurteen, said poverty was a problem, but an underlying cause was not material. He worried about the “concentrated and systematized pauperism which exists in our larger cities.” Gurteen wrote regarding “paupers” — those among the poor who had given up on working — that, “If left to themselves and no kind hand is held out to assist, they will inevitably sink lower and lower, ’til perchance they end their course in suicide or felony.” Read More ›

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November 22, 2024
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Jerry McAuley’s Nineteenth Century Homelessness Ministry

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November 22, 2024
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In 1872, McAuley rented a small Water Street room with funds provided by church leaders who admitted the failure of their plan to import middle-class ecclesiastical style into the Rat Pit. McAuley's services were different than anything Water Street, or other mean streets, had seen. He invited in homeless men and others for cheap but hot food, and lots of hot stories. Read More ›